Have you ever heard of “biblical economics”? At first blush, you might presume that the phrase must involve the application of love-thy-neighbor moral teachings to business practices and economic policy. There is indeed a long and varied tradition of applying various principles associated with Christianity to matters of economic concern. Some American Protestants of the late nineteenth century,…

(The Conversation) — Leo XIV released his first encyclical on the 135th anniversary of Rerum Novarum, the 1891 papal document on the upheavals of the Industrial Revolution.

“The dignity of work” is a somewhat old-fashioned phrase that’s seldom uttered these days. The left tends to view it with suspicion because it sounds like a justification for mandatory work requirements for Medicaid and food stamps. The right rarely utters it because it risks implying that this dignity should be rewarded with labor rights. So leave it to the pope to enliven our conversation about…

教宗良十四世發表通諭，警告AI需被「繳械」。他以奴隸制為鑑，示警「新型數位奴役」的風險，並為教會過往致歉，呼籲各界共同維護人類尊嚴。

(RNS) — Leo’s answer is clear: A person’s dignity does not depend on what they can ‘achieve or produce.’

(RNS) — 'Today, more than ever, it is important to reiterate the need to move beyond the theory of ‘just war,’ invoked too often to justify any war,' Leo writes in 'Magnifica Humanitas.'

The Vatican announced Monday that Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical will be published on May 25 with the title Magnifica Humanitas. Pope Leo will speak at a presentation for the release of the social encyclical — a papal letter to the Church — at 11:30 a.m. Rome time on May 25 in the Vaticanʼs Synod […]

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VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican said Leo had decided to create the in-house study group because of the acceleration in AI's use, “its potential effects on human beings and on humanity as a whole (and) the church’s concern for the dignity of every human being.”